Do Davos Billionaires and Bankers Really Believe Booms and Busts Are Over Because They’ve Trained the Fed?
Fed tightening is no longer needed to create recessions, given fragile credit structures and a growing pandemic out of China.
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Cybernetic Opioid Pushers: EHR Vendor Practice Fusion to Pay $145 Million to Resolve Criminal and Civil Investigations
Practice Fusion solicited payments to manipulate MDs to prescribe opioids….illustrating how electronic health care records insert themselves in treatment.
Read more...Student Enrollment Dropped 11% Since 2011, Student-Loan Balances Surged 74%. Why?
Drilling into why the student loan problem keeps getting worse.
Read more...How Iowa Chooses National Convention Delegates and What That Means For Us
Explaining the Iowa Caucus Rube Goldberg machine.
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 1/30/2020
Today’s Water Cooler: #2019-nCoV (auto manufacturing, US jobs), Biden (labor, electability), Sanders executive orders, Bloomberg as Crassus, Klobuchar, Sanders, Warren, Trump, Iowa, construction, Samsung, Boeing, Nissan, the Fed, carbon footprints, exploding batteries, minimum wage, sex work, psilocybin, internak monologues
Read more...Secular Stagnation: Demand Is Indeed the Culprit
Economists’ bad medicine is a significant factor in our present stagnation.
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Michael Hudson on the History of Debt Cancellation, Austerity in Europe, January 2020
Michael Husdon reviews the key themes of his recent book, ……and Forgive Them Their Debts, and discusses German austerity.
Read more...The War in Libya Will Never End
Looking at the gap between posturing and positions in Libya
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 1/29/2020
Today’s Water Cooler: Polling (national, IA, NH, SC, CA), Bloomberg and dog, Buttigieg and staff, Sanders and worried Democrats, Trump rally, impeachment, employment, Bitcoin, Salesforce, Apple, Tesla, automotive supply chain, Wuhan corona virus, the environmental cost of email
Read more...How CEOs, Experts and Philosophers See the World’s Biggest Risks Differently
Trying to understand CEOs’ blinkered view of risks.
Read more...Dr. Victor Shih: Coronavirus MUCH Worse Than SARS
A downbeat but persuasive take on the likely progression of the coronavirus.
Read more...Anti-Abortion Laws: A War Against Poor Women
Abortion as a class issue.
Read more...The Dead Zone Downstream: Gulf Edition
The cost of modern agriculture, as measured by a growing oxygen-free patch in the Gulf of Mexico.
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 1/28/2020
Today’s Water Cooler: 2019-nCoV and China trade, Bloomberg, Klobuchar, Sanders, Warren, Iowa no longer relevant?, Big 4 accounting firms, pharmacy counters, GM robot cars, Google, Uber, Internet of Things, farming, reforestation, R0, Harvard union-busting, SEIU, gentrification, Jeff Bezos
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